Chronology of key events in Burundi's 10 year war
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Here is a chronology of Burundi's war over the past 10 years, which has pitted rebels from the ethnic Hutu majority against a politically powerful Tutsi minority.
1993
June - Hutu Melchior Ndadaye's Frodebu party wins multi-party polls ending military rule and leading to installation of pro-Hutu government.
October - Tutsi soldiers assassinate Ndadaye. In revenge, some Frodebu members massacre Tutsis and army begins reprisals. Tens of thousands killed as civil war starts.
1994
January - Frodebu's Cyprien Ntaryamira, a Hutu, elected interim president by National Assembly.
April - Plane carrying Ntaryamira and Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana shot down by rocket in Kigali, killing both and triggering genocide in Rwanda in which 800,000 killed.
August - Burundi's political parties agree power-sharing deal against backdrop of increasing violence.
1996
July - Pierre Buyoya, a Tutsi, takes power in an army coup.
2000 - Most of Burundi's factions sign power-sharing deal in Tanzania that heralds three-year transition to power-sharing between Hutus and Tutsis.
Deal not signed by main Hutu rebels: Forces for the Defence of Democracy (FDD) and Forces for National Liberation (FNL).
2001
April - Coup attempt by extremist Tutsi troops fails.
November - Transitional government sworn in. Buyoya will remain in power with a Hutu deputy for first 18 months, after which positions will be reversed.
2002
December - Ceasefire accord signed between government and FDD but implementation delayed.
2003
April - Hutu Domitien Ndayizeye takes over as president.
August - Ndayizeye holds first face-to-face talks with FDD leader Pierre Nkurunziza to discuss power-sharing deal.
October - Ndayizeye and Nkurunziza start negotiations in Pretoria hosted by South African President Thabo Mbeki and his deputy, Jacob Zuma.
October 8 - Both sides sign new peace deal.
November 2 - FDD agrees to join government. FNL denounces deal.
November 16 - Regional leaders sign an agreement to cement power-sharing accord in Tanzania which incorporates all previous ceasefire agreements signed since 2000.
December 15 - Burundi begins integrating former rebels into its national army after President Ndayizeye named Adolphe Nshimiramana, a former FDD rebel, as the deputy chief of the armed forces.
December 22 - The Security Council gives Secretary-General Kofi Annan a green light to begin planning for an eventual U.N. peacekeeping mission in Burundi.
2004
January 5 - The FNL says it will end a boycott of Burundi's peace process and enter talks with the president.
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